News Snapshot:
October 7th has become the new “9/11″, a moment when the world seems to have stopped momentarily on its axis and a new brutal page of history is turned. A savage attack by Hamas on civilians, resulting in 1,200 deaths and 240 hostage seizures, became the justification for the “pacification” of Gaza, the “eradication of Hamas”, a bombardment that has surpassed the civilian attrition in any recent conflict. Some 60 per cent of the more than 20,000 deaths in Gaza are civilian, according to Israeli paper Haaretz. Forty per cent of Gaza homes have been damaged or destroyed, and up...
